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skype as radio? 21/08/2012 at 12:43 #35064
lelo4851
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hey everybody
just curious ,on the bigger sims does skype ever come into it as voice communications

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skype as radio? 21/08/2012 at 13:05 #35065
Sacro
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Yes, some of us use Skype, others use teamspeak, some use both (not usually at the same time!) and some use neither!
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skype as radio? 21/08/2012 at 15:20 #35069
headshot119
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I used to use Skype but as the numbers grew we moved over to Teamspeak. Details of which can be found in the post here.
"Passengers for New Lane, should be seated in the rear coach of the train " - Opinions are my own and not those of my employer
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skype as radio? 21/08/2012 at 15:46 #35073
Stephen Fulcher
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The audio quality on Skype when you have more than a couple of people in there leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion - even MSN is better!

There is a fairly active community on the TeamSpeak server, which Karl (headshot119) and Alan (agilchrist) run, even when there are no SimSig games being hosted, and we often play other games as well - OpenTTD Luukland and Company of Heroes being the most common at present.

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skype as radio? 21/08/2012 at 16:21 #35076
Sacro
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" said:
OpenTTD Luukland
For 3 more days anyway

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skype as radio? 21/08/2012 at 17:44 #35079
onlydjw
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" said:
Yes, some of us use Skype, others use teamspeak, some use both (not usually at the same time!) and some use neither!
I've used both at the same time, whilst having totally different discussions too! Certainly mentally stimulating!

God bless, Daniel Wilson
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skype as radio? 22/08/2012 at 00:30 #35098
virgin390053
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I think Skype would be good as its more like a phone but Im guessing as a Groupcall sort think it would be tricky but for realsum I think it could work
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skype as radio? 22/08/2012 at 02:29 #35100
Sparky
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We run a smallish group (now totally 9 regulars) on a Tuesday night (AEST) & we found that appart from chewing up great chunks of bandwidth the audio quality on skype was very lacking when you had more than 3 people on the 1 call. The other benefit of teamspeak is as long as everyone has the ip address & password if needed they can come & go as they want. There is no need to establish conference calls etc.

Anyone can run a ts server as long as they have the server software.

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skype as radio? 22/08/2012 at 06:50 #35101
BarryM
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" said:
We run a smallish group (now totally 9 regulars) on a Tuesday night (AEST) & we found that appart from chewing up great chunks of bandwidth the audio quality on skype was very lacking when you had more than 3 people on the 1 call. The other benefit of teamspeak is as long as everyone has the ip address & password if needed they can come & go as they want. There is no need to establish conference calls etc.

Anyone can run a ts server as long as they have the server software.
Sparky. What group is that may I ask?

From one in Oz land
Barry

Barry, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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